Stitches of My Life...

I have read this story many times, and now it is time for my version, what you are about to read may seem familiar to you, but it is in my own words.

I was watching Jesus make a quilt, to me it seemed all dark and dreary, and the threads seemed, to me, knotted and tangled. I asked Him why He would make such a quilt, and who it could possibly be for? He told me that this quilt was a representation of my life, and that He was stitching it together to make a beautiful masterpiece.

"That, a masterpiece?!" I asked in astonishment, "How could that dark and knotted stitching be a beautiful masterpiece?"

He said, "My child, you only see one side, but the side that I am working on, the side that you do not see, is very beautiful to behold!"

I cautiously asked, "Well then, do you think that I may see the side on which you are working on?"

He answered, "Not yet, for your life is just begun, you cannot see this masterpiece until it is finished. I cannot show it to you until you have come to live with me. When I come back to earth and take you and everyone else who follows me, home, then I can show you what it looks like."

When I look at the stitching of my life, I don't see very many colorful spots, oh sure there are some, but when I see it, it seems that the darkness is more than the color. I mentioned this to Jesus, and He smiled and told me, "Remember, when you see this someday, you will have no regrets as to how it is made."

Sometimes I still don't always understand why I am faced with certain darkness in my life, but I have to remember Who holds the stitches of my life. And I have to remember that when I see the finished product, that I wouldn't change a single stitch of my life, for, without that stitch, the piece wouldn't be the same. And sometimes even though I don't understand, the dark pieces, adds volumes to the masterpiece, it makes the color pop out even more.

Someday I will be able to see the finished masterpiece of my life, but for now I am content to trust Him with the stitches of my life. But you too have a masterpiece that God is working on, and it may seem like a lot of tangled dark knots, but when He turns the masterpiece (your life) around, you wouldn't want to change a thing!

Sometimes I think that Jesus should use a different color or different shade, but He tells me that He knows what He is doing. You too might feel like that sometimes, like He has thrown to many obstacles in your life, I know, that is how I feel sometimes. But all we have to do is to trust Him with the stitches of our life.

I want to trust the stitches of my life with Him, don't you?